{"id":429800,"date":"2026-10-16T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429800\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:58:11","slug":"jacksonville-man-charged-in-connection-with-lake-city-child-exploitation-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429800\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man charged in connection with Lake City child-exploitation investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">LAKE CITY, Fla. \u2013 A 37-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested Oct. 1 after an undercover operation targeting people trying to exploit children online, Lake City police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Sean Michael Eaton was charged with using a computer to seduce, solicit or lure a child, according to a police department news release issued Oct. 16. Police did not say when he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Detectives assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted the operation Oct. 1 in Lake City. They posted undercover ads on a website commonly used to arrange illicit encounters and posed as teenage girls, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">During the investigation, Eaton engaged in sexually explicit conversations with people he believed to be minors, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The investigation is ongoing, and additional arrests are possible, police said. Anyone with information can call Lake City police at 386-752-4343, the department\u2019s anonymous tips line at 386-719-2068 or Crime Stoppers of Columbia County at 386-754-7099.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE CITY, Fla. \u2013 A 37-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested Oct. 1 after an undercover operation targeting people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,12024,130208],"class_list":["post-429800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-lake-city","tag-lake-city-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}